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Class Acts: Advocating for older adults

With a unique skill, affection and affinity for working with older adults, Brown School PhD-candidate Cal Halvorson is making a career studying the relationship between work and aging.

Business & Entrepreneurship

Class Acts: An innovation mindset

How Peter Delaney, who will graduate from Washington University with a degree in global health and the environment in Arts & Sciences, turned a passion for innovation and medicine into an emergency medical system for an African community. And that’s just some of what he did as a student here.

Libraries’ Neureuther essay contest winners named

University Libraries has selected the winners of the 2018 Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition. The Neureuther competition offers prizes to both undergraduate students and graduate students who write short essays about their personal book collections.

Is Trump ‘morally unfit’ to be president? Not if Americans can’t agree on what’s good and bad

Donald Trump is “morally unfit” to be president, James B. Comey, the FBI director Trump fired last year, declared in the ABC interview this week. But to judge moral fitness, shouldn’t we first agree on what moral behavior actually is?

Campus & Community

Bowen, Perlmutter elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Washington University in St. Louis sociocultural anthropologist John R. Bowen and David H. Perlmutter, MD, dean of the School of Medicine, join the likes of President Barack Obama, actor Tom Hanks and Supreme Court Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor as newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Medicine & Health

Defect in debilitating neurodegenerative disease reversed in mouse nerves

Scientists from the School of Medicine have developed a new drug compound that shows promise as a future treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited, often painful neurodegenerative condition that affects nerves in the hands, arms, feet and legs.

Flags lowered in honor of former first lady Barbara Bush

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in honor of Barbara Bush, wife of former President George H.W. Bush, until sunset Saturday, April 21. Bush died April 17 at age 92.

Campus & Community

Wysession appointed executive director of Teaching Center

Michael Wysession, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed executive director of the university’s Teaching Center, effective July 1.

Humanities & Society

Video: What are your odds of going into poverty?

Mark Rank, the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at the Brown School, has developed a calculator that can determine for the first time an American’s expected risk of poverty based on their race, education level, gender, marital status and age. Here’s a video that explains how.

What’s unconscious bias training, and does it work?

The novelty of unconscious bias training means there is little direct evidence about whether it works. To determine its potential, researchers have turned to clues from other types of training.